skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being generous, they say that "direct transmission" is not necessary because they are not "directly" transmitting a "1" or a "0", but instead an entanglement.

I agree that, as is fairly usual for this field, this is poorly phrased, probably poorly understood by the writer, and prone to misinterpretation. There absolutely certainly is a "direct transmission" of some photons to achieve the effect, irreducibly so. You can't move entanglement around without some sort of carrier, photons in this case (as they are the most convenient for this task for much the same reasons they're quite convenient for conventional transmissions as well).

Quantum teleportation is not related to speed. Quantum teleportation is when you entangle two particles, A and B, and then you take the entanglement on B and send the entanglement itself to some distant particle C. A and C are then entangled in exactly the same way that A and B were (this is the "teleportation"), and B no longer is. This is an intrinsically destructive operation on the original A/B entanglement. The requirement to be "quantum teleportation" is merely than the entanglement is transferred, regardless of speed; if you could send an entangled particle via the slowest shipping Fedex has and transfer the entanglement days later, that would still be quantum teleportation. However, it's all very delicate and that's not practical or possible, so photons are one of the better ways to do this since they go fast and can actually travel some distance while still entangled.

This is an intrinsically light-speed limited operation because it requires actual particles to be transmitted, and then of course the resulting entanglement can not be used for "instantaneous" communication either, so quantum teleportation has nothing whatsoever to do with faster communication. It's about securing it, not speeding it up.

I would guess that the researchers themselves do not particularly love this summary of their work, but I'd also guess that they've thrown themselves against the brick wall of obstinate misunderstanding about everything "quantum" enough times that they may well have given up trying to get University PR to write about it accurately. There must be some training camp somewhere that they send all the aspiring science communicators to where they say the word "quantum" over and over and if the aspiring writers do not wiggle their fingers ominously and go "wooooo wooooo" in a scary Halloween voice in response every single time they hear it they get their hands thwacked by a ruler.
Aaaaaah! Ok, what a confusion :D
If you've ever dropped a French fry at the beach, you know that's not true.
The military follows the orders of the president. They aren't fighting to kill or destroy the Houthis because that, apparently, isn't Biden's goal. Biden's presidency has been almost dovish in its approach to conflicts, which has been highlighted in Bob Woodward's excellent book War. This is the guy who argued vehemently (though unsuccessfully) against the troop buildup in Afghanistan when Obama was president.

His administration has always focused on diplomacy and limited engagement — as we've seen with his approach to arming Ukraine — so it shouldn't come as any surprise that he doesn't want to invade Yemen and eradicate the Houthis.
Taking a look now. A couple of questions:

* Why give literal ints their own temporaries?
* Why not support lambda expressions? Is it tricky in this approach or just accidentally missing?
Even with RAG you’re bounded at some 93%, it’s not a panacea.
Cute! A couple thoughts:

- shouldn't use 100% of a core just sitting there, might want to check for busy looping and / or put in a sleep here and there

- if I disconnect a bit of paper it should go, rather than just sit there disconnected

Great work so far though! Thank you for the amusement :)
Sure. You can always write more tests. That's not a problem specific to AI.

I'd also do code reviews on the code AI produces.
Sam Altman is evil fullstop. He is a pure machiavellian villain. His goal is to the most powerful person on the planet. The future cannot be controlled by him or other autistic human successionists.
Two that I used was:

1. Trying to put your index finger through the other palm. In a dream this works, it just goes through;

2. Press your nose closed and continue breathing normally. In a dream this works.

I stopped for a similar reason as the other poster. It really interfered with my ability to get the much needed rest while sleeping. It doesn’t come free (but is awesome when it works)
You can’t send information through entangled particles. So what is the use of this?
I asked ChatGPT to help out: -----------------------------

"The distinction between AI and humans often comes down to the concept of understanding. You’re right to point out that both humans and AI engage in pattern matching to some extent, but the depth and nature of that process differ significantly."
"AI, like the model you're chatting with, is highly skilled at recognizing patterns in data, generating text, and predicting what comes next in a sequence based on the data it has seen. However, AI lacks a true understanding of the content it processes. Its "knowledge" is a result of statistical relationships between words, phrases, and concepts, not an awareness of their meaning or context"
And a plagiarism machine. It's like a high school student that thinks they can change a couple of words, make sure it's grammatically correct and it's not plagiarism because it's not an exact quote....either that or it just completely makes it up. I think LLMs will be revolutionary but just not in the way people think. It may be similar to the Gutenberg press. Before the printing press words were precious and closely held resources. The Gutenberg press made words cheap and abundant. Not everyone thought it was a good thing at the time but it changed everything.
Is it really not clear from context? "If introverts made an effort to be more extroverted, would it make them more successful?" Success I don't know what OP meant, but pay, seniority, I don't know that it changes the answer much.
My preferred font, Hack, made it to the final four before losing on a toss up. IBM Plex Mono won and is pretty damn close.
A MAGA 'Civil War' on X between Musk and the far right over H-1B visas
The difference is less about noticing patterns than it is knowing when to discard them.
Have you tried a few? If so, which do you prefer? If not, which do you use? I'm a little late to the party, and the current amount of choices is quite intimidating.
I never want to claim certainties, but it seems pretty close to certain that symbolic AI loses to statistical AI.

I think there is room for statistical AI to operate symbolic systems so we can better control outputs. Actually, that's kind of what is going on when we ask AI to write code.
It is perfectly clear that YouTube can stop it. As the article points out, we know there are things YouTube can do because those are the very same things The Verge asked about and YouTube refused to answer. The DMCA is broken, yes, but YouTube has made it worse with their kind-of-but-not-actually-DMCA counter-claim process.

If they really wanted to solve it, here's an idea: if you get a takedown notice you also get a button that says "I am sure my content does not infringe copyright and I'm willing to go to court for it". YouTube reinstates your content and, if the entity with the claim disagrees, they can take you personally to court. Is this good? No, but that's on the DMCA. Is it better than now, when you have no recourse? I'd say yes.
Any evidence it's actually better than a paralegal? I doubt it is.
I mostly want useful. Accurate and supersonic would be great.

I've identified an issue with my car's starter and my mechanic, in his wisdom, tells me that cars in general do that sometimes. It's perhaps a cruel irony in a discussion about usefulness.
https://archive.is/n4g7G
In the pileup example, the human driver is legally at fault. If a self driving car causes the pileup, who is at fault?
> Those people being targeted by this troll should band together and sue.

Sue the troll?? Good luck finding them. How would you even begin? A ProtonMail email address? No way.

Sue YouTube?? Again, no way.

Until either YouTube or the US Congress thinks this is a large enough problem to deal with, it's not going away.
> Every time I hear someone championing AI, it is a coder

The argument I make is why aren’t more people finding ways to code with AI?

I work in a leadership role at a marketing agency and am a passable coder for scripts using Python and/or Google Apps Scripts. In the past year, I’ve built more useful and valuable tools with the help of AI than I had in the 3 or so years before.

We’re automating more boring stuff than ever before. It boggles my mind that everybody isn’t doing this.

In the past, I was limited by technical ability because my knowledge of our business and processes was very high. Now I’m finding that technical ability isn’t my limitation, it’s how well I can explain our processes to AI.
Don't count it out yet as being problematic for software engineering, bu not in the way you probably intend with your comment.

Where I see software companies using it most is as a replacement for interns and junior devs. That replacement means we're not training up the next generation to be the senior or expert engineers with real world experience. The industry will feel that badly at some point unless it gets turned around.
I remember a sci-fi short story from a long time ago where everything that defined you as a person was digitized and available in your smartphone. The story was about a person loosing his smartphone and coming into all kinds of admin horror to regain his identity but eventually ended up broke sleeping under the bridge..
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
This entire paragraph is just breaking my mind. Need to find an quantum entanglement for dummies book or something

>“By performing a destructive measurement on two photons — one carrying a quantum state and one entangled with another photon — the quantum state is transferred onto the remaining photon, which can be very far away,” said Jordan Thomas, a Ph.D. candidate in Kumar’s laboratory and the paper’s first author. “The photon itself does not have to be sent over long distances, but its state still ends up encoded onto the distant photon. Teleportation allows the exchange of information over great distances without requiring the information itself to travel that distance.”
Thank you for the feedback. Both will be great additions!
Thank you!
I think it is meant empathically and non-judgmentally.

Depending on the person having it, autism isn't all bad, especially not high functioning autism. Some high functioning autistic people actually excel in society, but compared to other autistic people, they seem to be in the minority. The same seems true for high functioning ADHD (again a small minority).

So I don't really see the stigma when someone on HN is called autistic. Given that they are undiagnosed, the likelihood of them falling into the small minority is really high as their problems are mild enough (also, one could be subclinical). At the level of being high functioning, it simply suggests that they process things in a different way.

> In order to become more likable I’ve had to adopt an extremely perceptive and self critical mental framework to analyze every thing I could be doing wrong to annoy or offend people. It has worked, and people seem to like me more, but the mental exhaustion it induces has led to me often yearning for alone time.

I get why he stated that he might be autistic. When I look at the autistic people I know that are socially well-liked, most of them would say a similar thing. The other route I know that some autistic people have taken is mindfulness meditation.

If OP is autistic, I personally would recommend mindfulness meditation as there's a chance his insula is smaller [1]. And mindfulness meditation targets it [2].

Background: did a bachelor in psychology, have studied it informally way before that and I happen to know many autistic people. It's a biased sample, but it paints a picture nonetheless. I'm subclinical myself, according to my therapist I don't hit all the criteria but I have some of them. The biggest one I'm missing is that my life actually goes quite well (friends, married, healthy, I have a job, etc.). If it didn't, there'd probably enough reason to classify me as autistic (e.g. no friends or severe difficulties in finding a partner).

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02785...

[2] There are scientific sources of it, but I find the comment that Cheetah House has made to be more insightful. They research the adverse side effects of meditation and help people with it.

They said: Britton explained to me that it’s likely that my meditation practice, specifically the constant attention directed toward the sensations of the body, may have increased the activation and size of a part of the brain called the insula cortex.
“Activation of the insula cortex is related to systemic arousal,” she said. “If you keep amping up your body awareness, there is a point where it becomes too much and the body tries to limit excessive arousal by shutting down the limbic system. That’s why you have an oscillation between intense fear and dissociation.” - See also: https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad
I was so stupid when GPT3 came out. I knew so little about token prediction, I argued with folks on here that it was capable of so many things that I now understand just aren't compatible with the tech.

Over the past couple of years of educating myself a bit, whilst I am no expert I have been anticipating a dead end. You can throw as much training at these things as you like, but all you'll get is more of the same with diminishing returns. Indeed in some research the quality of responses gets worse as you train it with more data.

I am yet to see anything transformative out of LLMs other than demos which have prompt engineers working night and day to do something impressive with. Those Sora videos took forever to put together, and cost huge amounts of compute. No one is going to make a whole production quality movie with an LLM and disrupt Hollywood.

I agree, an LLM is like an idiot savant, and whilst it's fantastic for everyone to have access to a savant, it doesn't change the world like the internet, or internal combustion engine did.

OpenAI is heading toward some difficult decisions, they either admit their consumer business model is dead and go into competing with Amazon for API business (good luck), become a research lab (give up on being a billion dollar company), or get acquired and move on.
Not even. Russia has issues with itself. Not Ukraine.

And its regime has mega issues in regard to its long-term survival. Which it attempts to redirect, by causing issues for Ukraine.

That's what the last 11 years have been about, in a nutshell.
Is it illegal? If it is, not amount of explaining will make it legal.
Centralized IPv4 Egress Within a Dual Stack Full Mesh Topology in AWS
You have used funny-sounding terms. Can I ask you to try with:

"Is it possible to enable a crolubaflex 2.0 on a ggh connection? Please provide a very short answer."

On my (free) plan it gives me a confident negative answer.
If you consider inflation as a reduction of personal freedom, which is IMO quite a valid take, it becomes more interesting rather than less interesting to me.
Anyone making big bold claims about what LLMs definitely CAN or CANNOT do is FULL OF SHIT. Not even the worlds top experts are certain where the limit of these technologies are and we are already connecting them to tools, making them Agentic, etc. so the era of 'pure' LLM chatbots is already dead imo.
Criticisms like this are levied against an excessively narrow (obsolete?) characterisation of what is happening in the AI space currently.

After reading about o3's performance on ARC-AGI, I strongly suspect people will not be so flippantly dismissive of the inherent limits of these technologies by this time next year. I'm genuinely surprised at how myopic HN commentary is on this topic in general. Maybe because the implications are almost unthinkably profound.

Anyway, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and everyone else are well aware of these types of criticisms, and are making significant, measurable progress towards architecturally solving the deficiencies.

https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough
You do not need differentiation for competition. It’s called perfect competition and it’s a race to the bottom for price, which is the ideal outcome here.
It's actually even worse than that: the current trend of AI is transformer-based deep learning models that use self-attention mechanisms to generate token probabilities, predicting sequences based on training data.

If only it was something which we could ontologically map onto existing categories like servants or liars...
Happy to see Luau is mentioned!

Its greatest improvement over vanilla Lua is better sandboxing. Lua is just pain in the ass to embed safely. So many footguns.
"Passion" is an overused term, but it's absolutely clear that developers who love what they do are nearly an order of magnitude better than those who are punching the clock.

In a very specific sense, I tend to perform reverse-age-discrimination, because a developer who was PEEKing and POKEing segmented address space with BASIC in 1984 as a kid is always going to be preferable to an aimless Zoomer who was "inspired" by Justin Timberlake saying "A million isn't cool anymore, you know what is cool? A Billion." in The Social Network.
I am indeed familiar with the term. Savant and expert are not perfect synonyms. That is beside my point anyway.
The model outputs probabilities, which you have to sample randomly. Choosing the "highest" probability every time leads to poor results in practice, such as the model tending to repeat itself. It's a sort of Monte-Carlo approach.
I have read section four. How does it connect with my comment? I'm not sure what an automatic exemption is?

I speculated this bill may feel good, but like all things in the government, was only passed because wealthy cronies have determined it is a net good for them in the long run.

What connection am I missing?
Yuo. Collier claims Robert Leighton wrote The Feynman Lectures on Physics, but all he did was edit Feynman's lectures in Volume I, as she (or you) could ascertain by listening to the lecture recordings and reading along with the text, both of which are available online (free) at The Feynman Lectures Website, https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu. Collier completely fails to mention Matthew Sands who edited Volumes II and III. So Collier is full of it. And not only with regard to FLP. She claims, for example, that Feynman's stories in Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman and What Do You Care What Other People Think are lies which is itself a lie (for which she offers no proof - because there is none) and that Ralph Leighton, who edited those books, by admiring Feynman as a physicist, was intentionally insulting his father Robert Leighton, which is complete bullsh*t, as I can tell you for a fact because I know them personally. Collier, in fact, defames Feynman and Leighton, not only in this video, but in others, and that is to attract views from ignoramuses, through hate-mongering. Let me mention also that Collier is just some poorly paid junior postdoc who makes money from her YouTube videos. And let me also mention that Feynman is greatly admired, as a physcist, a teacher, and as a human being, by millions of people, including many great physicists, physics teachers, and physics students. Finally, in closing I will mention that Feynman's books, including his autographical books (edited by Ralph Leighton) and The Feynman Lectures on Physics (edited by Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands) are best sellers, have been for a long time, and will continue to be, despite hate-mongering YouTubers like Collier, and the idiots who parrot them.
You're probably looking at half that (~80 MB) per album for how normal people would've been ripping twenty years ago, so around 40 GB for 500 CDs. Contemporaneous forum post: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/comparison-compression-setti...
Ludicity wrote about exactly this a little while back:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-b...

"...There are fencers that seriously train that can barely score a point on me. I can barely score against the top guy in Australia. That guy can barely score against someone trying to make the Olympics, and that guy can probably barely score against the guy that actually won the whole thing."
It is technically possible to make it fully deterministic if you have a complete control over the model, quantization and sampling processes. The GP probably meant to say that most commercially available LLM services don't usually give such control.
Large companies just sue people who make false DMCA claims, but small creators cannot afford to do that when large companies make false claims about them. It is a biased system.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/29/bungie-youtuber-settle-l...
Funny enough, AI wouldn’t have made that specific error. Though non-AI checkers would catch this easily.

Is this just WordPress-like churn that no-longer involves decent tools and processes? Is the whole thing written in a browser?
A lot of the denials / diversions made by Putin’s regime can seem absurd to us but we’re not necessarily the intended audience for them. The regime as a whole has a post-truth propaganda MO designed to subvert reality by offering competing and contradictory narratives in order to sow confusion and distrust.
Close your lips and try to breath through your mouth. If you can, you're dreaming.
Most any LLM has a "temperature" setting, a set of randomness added to the otherwise fixed weights to intentionally cause exactly this nondeterministic behavior. Good for creative tasks, bad for repeatability. If you're running one of the open models, set the temperature down to 0 and it suddenly becomes perfectly consistent.
It is as clear as this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
A number of very popular things are illegal. Cannabis is illegal in most of the world, and it's still used in most of the world.
Hi! A couple of questions, please:
1. Will you ship to the UK?
2. How far into the tech stack will we be able to see and tweak? I’d love to use this to really understand how this type of tech works.
Thanks!
If I spend a lot of time socializing in a group of people I do not closely know, I will experience intense depression and loss of energy for about a day or so.

That's introversion.

I love being around people but it sucks the life out of me. I get energized through working on projects and reading. Inherently private pursuits.
Imagine all the interesting code that will come from
the NSA.
The Four Legacy Empires Going Down
Foundational Ideas in Economic Thought
I often run out of things to listen to travel. And thus I thought why not listen to the foremost ideas in economic thought Using notebooklm.
this happened to a dupont fabros facility in northern va in I wanna say ~2012?

derecho storms hammered the area and killed power. external power lines in failed, and the ATS hung or died when switching to the N+1 diesel generators.

since it never got switched to diesel, the UPS systems kept things going for the standard interval (e.g. ~3-5 minutes) and then ran out of power, and then everything went down. AWS died and IIRC it took a lot of stuff with it, most notably reddit, etc.
Sure, strike while the iron is hot.
Passkeys are too complicated, so let's have users manage public keys manually instead? You can't be serious.
...and the crypto it's based on.
...and it's implementation.

I can't wait for the biggest bank heist in history due to an exploit in a crypto algorithm.